
{"id":25104,"date":"2012-04-12T10:07:25","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T14:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=25104"},"modified":"2012-04-12T10:07:25","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T14:07:25","slug":"helen-peacock-chhs-librarian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2012\/04\/12\/helen-peacock-chhs-librarian\/","title":{"rendered":"Helen Peacock, CHHS librarian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Thousand Words<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>By Jock Lauterer<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2012\/04\/12\/helen-peacock-chhs-librarian\/1kwords041212-web\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25105\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/1kwords041212.web_.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"1kwords041212.web\" width=\"500\" height=\"398\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/1kwords041212.web_.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/1kwords041212.web_-113x89.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/1kwords041212.web_-141x113.jpg 141w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/1kwords041212.web_-100x79.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/1kwords041212.web_-360x286.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nDuring National Library Week, April 8-14, my thoughts turn to the late Helen Peacock, the diva of the Dewey Decimal System at Chapel Hill High School. Ask any Chapel Hillian of a certain age if they remember the school\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s longtime librarian and you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll get an emphatic response. Among the many \u00e2\u20ac\u0153mothers\u00e2\u20ac\u009d who kept their keen eyes on our every move, She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed was both feared and revered \u00e2\u20ac\u201c for Mrs. Peacock brooked no fools. She ran her library like an 18th-century man-o-war sea captain and could shush you with one terrible glance from across the room. Woe be unto any smart-aleck teenager who dared to cross Mrs. Peacock! On balance, her required library class taught us the power of books and how to conduct meaningful research in a pre-Google world. I made this photograph for the Daily Tar Heel in the mid-\u00e2\u20ac\u212260s when the new high school opened on High School Road.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A THOUSAND WORDS<\/strong><br \/>\nDo you have an important old photo that you value? Email your photo to jock@email.unc.edu and include the story behind the picture. Because every picture tells a story. And its worth? A thousand words.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/sections\/a-thousand-words\/\">More &#8220;A Thousand Words&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ask any Chapel Hillian of a certain age if they remember the school\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s longtime librarian and you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll get an emphatic response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":25105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[422],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-thousand-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25104"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25109,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25104\/revisions\/25109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}